Golang / Go Job: Software Engineer at Return Path

Software Engineer at Return Path at Return Path

🇺🇸 United States › Texas › Austin   (Posted Aug 26 2016)

About the company
Return Path is a global Data Solutions Provider that helps the world’s leading companies promote and protect their brands. Every minute of every day, our clients and partners trust our data and insights to help them build closer, safer, and smarter relationships with their customers. Our unique and proprietary data platform, SaaS products, and professional services allow our customers to generate more revenue and engagement from their marketing campaigns, protect their brands and their consumers from fraud, better understand competitors’ strategies and performance, and gain unparalleled insights into the behavior of millions of consumers.

Job position
Permanent

Job description
At Return Path, “Big Data” is a big deal! We’re swimming in data, terabytes of it, and we need a few smart, versatile software engineers to help us solve the most pressing challenges in the email industry. For example, we process data from 100+ million email messages every day, and build useful products powered by all that data. If you love solving complex problems in a simple way, have solid programming skills and are passionate about achieving meaningful business results, then you may be the right fit as a Software Engineer at Return Path.

Skills & requirements
What does it take to be successful in this role?
Practical and professional software development experience
An analytical mind with a strong grasp of algorithms and data structures
Knowledge or command of Go Lang.
Interest in working on an agile/lean team
Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, continuous deployment
Command-line scripting skills in Unix
Large volume data processing (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Storm, etc) a big plus
Experience deploying to Amazon Web Services (EC2, CloudFront, DynamoDB, etc) a plus
Knowledge of email technology (SMTP, DKIM, MIME, etc) a plus
Active contributions to open source software a plus

Apply now!